A feminist cult classic about love independence and what it means to be an individual
translated into English for the first time 'I want to have him I really do. I just don't
want him to have me.' Martina and Gustav students in 1970s Stockholm meet and fall
immediately into coupledom. But what is coupledom? A route to marriage? A declaration of
co-dependency? A new dimension of commitment and responsibility? A sexual confrontation? Or is
it a habit that an intelligent person must consider breaking? Martina and Gustav discuss their
relationship endlessly between themselves and with others as they try to make it work.
Engagement set during a time of social change and political upheaval sees Martina trying to
engage with the world on her own terms. Unwilling to marry she finds herself in a state of
permanent engagement while her friends settle down to marriage and children uncertain of the
world's future she engages with demos sit-ins and philosophy seminars in her quest for a new
blueprint for joy. First published in 1976 when it was heralded as an instant classic
Engagement remains as relevant hilarious and heartbreaking today.
